stay military leader, captain abraham troy signed a decree. ordering the mobilization of people, aged 18 and above the presidency, announced, stood stout fight, armed groups in the country. more than 10000 people had been killed. begin a fast as violence since 2015. nicholas hark reports from deca. speaking of fossil military, gentle leader admits that the military is going from losses to defeat, saying that the government forces have lost 40 percent of its territory to arm groups linked to al qaeda and iso. this is a country the size of the united kingdom. imagine in scotland and wales were no longer in control of london and will, that's what's happening in burkina faso with arm groups controlling the center and the east of the country. and so, since the coo, the united states has severed military cooperation with captain ibrahim tower tories military giant leadership. and the french have stopped their military cooperation so he can no longer rely on air support from the french or ground

troops. so in order to bridge that gap insecurity, well the government of burkina faso is looking at people. it's young people, a country of 22000000 people where the median aid to 17, many people sitting idle. and so this war effort, calling on anybody above the age of 18 where there are men and women to go on the front line is greatly popular. why? well, that's because 2000000 people are displaced. tens of thousands of people have been killed in their daily despatches on the news intel on television, but also on the radio of the latest information of the front line. and so the situation is going from bad to worse in this country. and so this is a desperate effort to try to regain last land. nicholas hawk al jazeera. ah,

this is al jazeera. these are the top stories. the cell, the you in, is calling for an immediate humanitarian. sees fun saddam of the eat holiday. the rapids support forces says it has agreed to a 3 day truce, but fighting appears to be continuing. have a morgan has more from cartoon. we can still hear heavy, shallow shelling and heavy artillery strikes in the northern parts of the capital across the river nile. and we can also hear shillings in part of her tomb. so it's clear that there is still fighting on going between the sudanese army and the rapid support forces paramilitary group. we've spoken to residents in the southern parts of the capitol, specifically in the city of cheberra, and they said that they can hear heavy artillery strikes and that there's been a lot of, of fighting going on between the rapid support forces. addison, denise army. many people are still trying to leave the sudanese capital cartoon. thousands have fled to neighboring chaired humanitarian agencies. there are

appealing for help to cope with the influx of refugees around the world. muslims are marking, eat with prayers and festivities. the timing of aid is determined by the citing of the crescent moon. in some countries, the holiday will be celebrated on saturday night, her secretary general gen suttonberg says you crime will eventually join the military alliance. but the focus now was ensuring a defend itself against russia. officials from nicer the us and other allies, a meeting in germany, to discuss support for you. crime shows that headlines. stay tuned. the stream is coming up next. as the sun goes down, the challenge i is a very challenging place to work from. as a journalist, even though the authority of say you can do it, it's not allowed. we are still pushing. we are always putting our boundaries out of the central mazda with people being the day for be fully marked. here. we

are the ones reveling the extra mile. where are the media? don't go, we go there and we give them a time to tell their story. ah, i anthony ok, thanks for watching the stream. today, the story of the us combat veterans struggling with p t. s. d. the made a plan to bomb a mosque. you will not believe what happened next. his stories told in a short documentary stranger at the gate when i 1st saw him emotional dis, so to not right with this guy was love, caring with he was walking halifax, his hair was kind of down, base him back and for them i was hoping for at least 200 or more

dead injured. you know, he thought he was doing the right thing. he was at war with muscles in his mind. when i tell people the story, they tell me that they don't believe me. my dad called my mom, the mother teresa of the muslim community. and it's definitely true. i invited him over from ben that i couldn't help it except that you feel for my heart is welcome. i could never in a 1000000 years pay this community what they've given me. so we're going on a journey from hate to acceptance via kindness. joining us to talk about the film baby barmy president of these learning center of new muncie in indiana, also in muncie, indiana, richard mac mckinney, he's a life coach anti hate actress,

the public speaker, which had wrapped mckinney calico emac. absolutely. all right, welcome back. and in new york, joshua's f tell he directed the documentary system. evie mac joshua, so great to have him here. we have a youtube audience who are standing by with their comments ready to ask a question. so there you go. youtube audience. you can jump in any time. we start mac with a situation where you are planning to bomb a muslim nearby to you. why? i'm over the years i developed a hatred for islam muslims. um, it had a job basically just built and built over time to where i the only way that i saw making any kind of concession on this was to eliminate as many of missouri could the faster the thing for probably of,

of somebody who sees other people was something different when you say them, like those people, not anything to do with you in the military. the way you could make sense of the killing was told to buy a high up official, like mac. this is how you have to think about it. and i want to share that moment in the documentary because it helps us understand what was mat, even thinking as have a look. i was in the military for 5 years. towards the end of my military career, i was a totally different person. the fact of being involved in so many dos over years of crazies armor. i don't even know i probably would have been committed if they would actually know the way i was acting one time i had a discussion di,

ranking person, about coping to be strictly on his mac range, a sheet of paper target. as long as you can look at them anything but human. have any problems or can i make sense? that's what i do. just to be the do you remember the 1st time you met mack, your 1st impressions. thank you. i was mad night. i mean, as they say, we're here, look, scary and concern, but in spite of that, i respectfully welcome him and with kindness and it's back and tell understood he was a human ah. and we would have that's how my memory is. i know it's been a while, but the basic number that i get is scary deep. but well, can we kindness matter? what did he do?

the scary thing is scary. the back. what are you doing in the mosque? i mean, this was part of the plan, right? well actually me being in the mosque was not part of the plan, but in order to i wanted tangible evidence. i knew what i believed to be true to be facts. the thing was that i wanted to be able to show my daughter, even though she was going to lose her father. i wanted to show my daughter that see these people really are evil. and i went to the source. yeah. joshua, you were trying to place this story together and tell this story for documentary form that moment where we see mac. oh, we hear that mike is casing the mosque not is terrifying. and for long part of the

documentary, i think it's going to end in an awful way to get to that deliberately. well, we, we wanted to tell a story with within new kinds of heroes. heroes like like baby and like her, her husband solver. and we wanted to make a film that didn't just preach to the choir and you know, so many films so many documentaries, even ones that i've made, i think end up preaching to the choir and we wanted to try to be different. we wanted to, we want this film to, we want people to watch this film who maybe need to watch this film. need this message, need to understand, have a better understanding of muslims have a better understanding. ready of their own biases and we, so we told the story in a way that was very gripping and draws you in and hasn't almost

a true crime. how totally i'm. this is not going to end. well, joshua for a long time. yeah, i mean we, we took around that, it's a, it's a true crime story without a crime. i a happy and being, you know, it's, it's, it's a story about just about that. the best point ever that might you've been noting all the way for this a little bit. well, why you nothing? well, i mean, i totally agree with josh. you know, he did him in his team, did such a wonderful job piecing this together. and a lot of people have come up to me after they watch that. they says, oh my gosh, i was shocked. yeah, i thought it was good. totally different place. you know, and they told me when i saw me being interviewed, they thought i was being interviewed. i was actually in person. i thought you were

in town. i was in how to get access to prison. to talk to matt. i was, i am confused. i'm like, wow, i yeah, i think i thought you were in a lot of trouble just the people you're also noting as, until she was timely wanting to tell the story. yeah. yeah. i think i think we were extremely kind to him. we did not put him in jail, that's why he's not a day. we were totally lost the hard him in his life in their life. i mean, it, the members, like, i think the job done well done by joshua, how would you send back a documentary to me to watch it? and i know when i did interview, i'll give you a little bit of background why i did it. but then when i truly want to ask, i missed the interview and said the story. and i was like, chalk, this is a real thing. this is so professionally well done and how you put these pieces

together. and the student had happen in 2009, it was and this was the was working on in 2021. and you know, i but very impressed how he did intentionally did it was amazing message. and i think that's what i, it's very dear to my heart because of the message how we shared this through a documentary and how we organized it in a short 30 minutes. i was a my pass into that 30 minutes. you feel like you've watched an entire feature film by the time you get to the end of it. there's a lot of tension in the don't commentary and there's a part where i'm not finding anything for you because you have to watch. it only takes 30 minutes to what yeah. as a part where matt goes to the most because he is planning to do something awful. and he needs to tell his step daughter. he needs proof to tell her that bill to like, it's right. these awful people are living amongst us,

and i need to do something about a, have a listen. have a look at this part of the film. i need to be able to show proof. i need to be able to show the rest of the world flu. so i want to know as long center to get the proof i wanna i wanna be with these people because if i walk inside his building, i might not come back. so i walk in the building and all of a sudden it's like i felt my stomach tighten up. just i know i tried to keep my senses about me. i have very anxious. i didn't trust them. i considered myself somebody as a, a future news story on al jazeera. by the end of the night, i figured they would have been in the basement with a sword to my throat. a latin got you out here and i that thankfully it was, it is

a girl and her hate. yes. walking into the masters, working into the mosque. that was the moment, but changed your life and probably a lot of people's life in the most because that was the beginning of how kindness alpha comes height tell what comes from. so, oh, you know, when it was, when i went in there, i was very, you know, i felt very uneasy. and i was met with open arms, smiles. hello. so you know, i'm glad you could be here. and then, you know, one of the brothers gave me eat, come up to me and he handed me a koran. and he says, read this, come back when you have questions. and i was like, man, they give me the all the evidence. and they're going to explain it to me like this is great. yeah. but,

but as i was piecing the 2 together between how i was being treated and what was in the koran. my impression of islam was the people who had been shooting at me again . and but when i came here and i started reading the scripture and knowing how religion works the where you're supposed to live your life according to the scriptures as closely as you can. well, i saw that in muncie. i didn't see that overseas. so that tells me that obviously the people in muncie are actually a true representation of what is what i'm really is. and it changed my whole perspective, you know, and that's when i started understanding that more, more about human beings and they, they make the decisions they make in the ways that they act simply driven by greed . josh, are you looking very thoughtful, articulate those thoughts?

go ahead. well, i think that when mac went to the mosque, he just had a big argument with his 8 year old daughter. and you know, she had yelled at him because he said something. as on the phone, but he said something negative about muslims, and his 8 year old daughter confronted him. and like what are you thinking like what's, what's wrong with you, dad? and that's when he went to the mosque was in the wake of that argument. because you know, she wanted to make sure he was right, that he, that his plan to bomb them off with the right thing to do. and this little 8 year old had made him question his plans. and i think that when he went in there, his, i think his guard was down a little bit, i think i think there was a tiny crack in his armor. there was a tiny, like opening for love to come in. and when he met b, b, and sobber,

and joe and the other members of their mosque and they were so nice to him and so kind and welcoming that it kind of blew his mind. i think he didn't know what to think, but he started to think like maybe i maybe i am wrong. maybe maybe i've got this whole thing wrong. and it was this amazing moment where, you know, be through her kindness i think started to change his mind and melt away the hatred that he had in his heart. and she didn't even know. like maybe you didn't know anything about what his plans well and i did not. and you know, i mean, i will do this to you on less than the family that we always to get them trained. my father also took care of the homeless and when i came across anybody, because i had the refugee toys and taking care of a out up, you do and, and my husband being a medical doctor, what can his office experiencing,

treating his, their body. now, we have dealt with alco walks of life and we have comforted all kinds of pupils throughout our life and we have give them place in their home. they have stayed with us for months and weeks or 2 before we let them go. and the same thing that so when, when i did this with a man, what i thought of me to invite him over nothing, i'm sitting on the table to where he was sitting with us having a dinner. and i think that also was part of the way of life for me, but it was a huge impact on mac and not just having welcomed him in the sense that and respectfully and then embodying him over to our house and share them, you know, with him and sit down and listen to his story. i don't think he had this come about his spot and i could send him being invited and listen to me that something it impacted him a lot. and then obviously continuously that was not only that thing. and we also give him a part of the leadership when i asked him to be the president of based on muslim

student association. and he's, there were all these distribution. i don't know what i'm doing and i worry, i will help you as a man out as a guy in the ship. yes, this week i would have got what. how can he be head of the muncie a mosque? how is that possible? because what happened to you, mac, that there's a little gap there between you going into the ma spring very unhappy with feel muslim neighbors, and then you became walked. well, 1st of all, i became the president of the muslim students association at both ball state university here in muncie, mac, and you forgot to say that you became muslim. well, yeah, i was getting into i don't go, well, yeah, i became a movement weeks. he comes in and he's asking my husband and the other people, i wanna become lead to them. and my husband said, no,

what are you talking about mac? you know, you need to study, want to get ready. now i can let my talk about that. all right, go ahead, right? yeah, yeah, so, yeah, so that's an interesting story so. so to even go back that just a little bit. no one knew about this plan about my everybody that knew me knew i hated most, but nobody knew the extent of my hatred and nobody knew that i was planning to do anything. my wife didn't even know until after the fact she knew when the f b i showed up at the house. i know that opened up a door and we'll get back to that. but when i went there, and finally, after all my study and, and my, my conversations and all the, all the acquaintances i,

i was touched. i was touched by the koran and i, i had to be and mostly i just had to and i, it was funny because i went into the mosque on a, on a friday. and for juma, and i went up to the doctor and there was another brother, mac, i know you're showing off. but jima, you went in surprise, right? yes, yeah. okay. yeah. so, so i was a, so i, i went up to sobber and another brother shop. and, and says, hey, i want to take shot and they both, it was funny because they both looked at me. they both looked at each other. they looked back at me. and they said, no, i said, you're not ready. you need to learn more, right, right. and i, and so i looked at them and said, well, we all have a lot or and they look both, both i'm with back at each other and both them look back at me. and i said, i'm not sure a mac system, even if this was a movie,

it will be on believable. the fact that it's real life is extraordinary area we spoke to must have a, he's from the african american foundation. and there's a big message to this film if they needed to be one, i don't think that needs to be one, but there is, i think, a method and must a flat line, diesel not big. and i think it's have a listen, it's have a look kind. this does change. i think it kind of does change hatred to, to love to community the connection and, and specifically stranger at the gate shows up in a really beautiful way. and i think it also, it also goes and challenges a lot of assumptions. pat, many americans may have about islam and muslims. and i think many americans, quote, unquote knows about islam and knows about muslims. but they have never, i spend time and really get to know muslim. close up

josh, this is why you are drawn to make this documentary because where we are not just in america, but in the world right now. how divided people are and you experienced it as a young boy as well? not a is a foam yet is life is i'm a phobia, but human you experienced being i hated because of your jewish heritage of jewish background. so that's why you came to the field, that's what drew you to the phil. what do you make of the reaction? i mean, the reason we wanted to tell this story is because we felt like the story is needed right now. we felt that, you know, as you mentioned, that this is a moment of great division in our country. and it's, you know, it's not often that we come across a story about would be a crime that turns into

a happy ending that turns into above that shows the power of kindness, that kindness love conquers hate. and i was so. ready drawn to this story and to the actions of the congregants at the amik center, muncie phoebe, and sobber and joe and everybody and what they did that the way they welcomed mac into their congregation and the way that they treated him with kindness. and it literally saved a lives and i can't think of a better way to convey the, the power of kindness than with this story. and it's something, it's something we, i think we can all learn from. but it's something we need to remember that being kind to others, especially people, we don't know, are people that we might have preconceived notions about that that can be incredibly powerful, right?

and i think that it's less than we all need to remember. right now, as we sort of live in this time where we don't really talk to, we don't always talk to people that have different opinions than we do. we sometimes don't talk to people who vote for a different political candidate than, than we did. and like that's very troubling to me and i think what b b has shown and through her actions is the power of talking to she didn't need to talk to mack, you know, like, she knew he was different than her. she was even scared of him. but she also saw him as a human being and i think that's is something we need to remember to be to be like b, b, i a santa that. yeah. and treat others, treat others as humans to try to find that common ground. that's what, that's what struck me so much about the story or what b b and the congregants did in muncie. so strange ok has been nominated for an

oscar. and i just wanted to show the moment where joshua and his production team were waiting for the oscar nominations to come through and they were quite excited . it's let me to show you what it looks like. you're a guy and they're just waiting. and then you can tell them when they find out that they were nominated. oh, yes. oh. so one of the executive produces of stranger at the gate is mila. your soft sigh. and she says, have a look here to believe that people can change and to be willing to change ourselves is our best hope for a better world. i've spoken so much about this film, it's only 30 minutes and it's available right now. so i'm just going to click so you can see where you can see it w w, w dot stranger at the gate dot com. and just below the title, watch the film here and you can watch it, and i guarantee you won't be disappointed. now if you know anything about is i'm,

you know, that we are coming to the end of the holy month of ramadan. and then there's an amazing body and festivities and it's amazing and extraordinary. i want to find out if you would wish your fellow muslims around the world in a sentence is to be, be in, in a sentence. max is to be, be fest one sentence. i would like i would like on my hello of brain. the human being families and muslim brothers and sisters by kicked off. wish them a happy and peaceful holidays. ok, me sometimes imagine that you're a message. yes. odd to all the muslim brothers and sisters around the world isn't as well as rusty humanity. peace blessings and know that tomorrow is the chance to be better than he. mack, thank he says to even thank you, joshua, i see you next time. take, have a buddy ah

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